Lung MRI with hyperpolarised gases: current & future clinical perspectives

NJ Stewart, LJ Smith, HF Chan… - The British Journal of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
The use of pulmonary MRI in a clinical setting has historically been limited. Whilst CT
remains the gold-standard for structural lung imaging in many clinical indications, technical …

Pulmonary functional imaging: Part 1—state-of-the-art technical and physiologic underpinnings

Y Ohno, JB Seo, G Parraga, KS Lee, WB Gefter… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Over the past few decades, pulmonary imaging technologies have advanced from chest
radiography and nuclear medicine methods to high-spatial-resolution or low-dose chest CT …

Hyperpolarized 129Xe MRI Abnormalities in Dyspneic Patients 3 Months after COVID-19 Pneumonia: Preliminary Results

JT Grist, M Chen, GJ Collier, B Raman, G Abueid… - Radiology, 2021 - pubs.rsna.org
Background SARS-CoV-2 targets angiotensin-converting enzyme 2–expressing cells in the
respiratory tract. There are reports of breathlessness in patients many months after infection …

Efficacy of ultrashort echo time pulmonary MRI for lung nodule detection and lung-RADS classification

Y Ohno, D Takenaka, T Yoshikawa, M Yui, H Koyama… - Radiology, 2022 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Pulmonary MRI with ultrashort echo time (UTE) has been compared with chest
CT for nodule detection and classification. However, direct comparisons of these methods' …

Generating high-resolution synthetic CT from lung MRI with ultrashort echo times: initial evaluation in cystic fibrosis

A Longuefosse, J Raoult, I Benlala… - Radiology, 2023 - pubs.rsna.org
Background Lung MRI with ultrashort echo times (UTEs) enables high-resolution and
radiation-free morphologic imaging; however, its image quality is still lower than that of CT …

Bronchopulmonary dysplasia from chest radiographs to magnetic resonance imaging and computed tomography: adding value

NS Higano, AJ Bates, CC Gunatilaka, EB Hysinger… - Pediatric …, 2022 - Springer
Bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD) is a common long-term complication of preterm birth.
The chest radiograph appearance and survivability have evolved since the first description …

[HTML][HTML] The clinical use of lung MRI in cystic fibrosis: what, now, how?

G Dournes, LL Walkup, I Benlala, MM Willmering… - Chest, 2021 - Elsevier
To assess airway and lung parenchymal damage non-invasively in cystic fibrosis (CF), chest
MRI has been historically out of the scope of routine clinical imaging due to technical …

Longitudinal evaluation of bronchial changes in cystic fibrosis patients undergoing elexacaftor/tezacaftor/ivacaftor therapy using lung MRI with ultrashort echo‐times

M David, I Benlala, S Bui, T Benkert… - Journal of Magnetic …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Background Lung magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ultrashort echo‐times (UTE‐MRI)
allows high‐resolution and radiation‐free imaging of the lung structure in cystic fibrosis (CF) …

Quantitative imaging metrics for the assessment of pulmonary pathophysiology: an official American Thoracic Society and Fleischner Society joint workshop report

CCW Hsia, JHT Bates, B Driehuys, SB Fain… - Annals of the …, 2023 - atsjournals.org
Multiple thoracic imaging modalities have been developed to link structure to function in the
diagnosis and monitoring of lung disease. Volumetric computed tomography (CT) renders …

Fractal analysis of lung structure in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

N Tanabe, S Sato, B Suki, T Hirai - Frontiers in physiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Chest CT is often used for localizing and quantitating pathologies associated with chronic
obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD). While simple measurements of areas and volumes …